I'm trying to remember the special place in hell for those who were "just following orders". Perhaps these monkeys can meet up with the DOJ apes that raid the homes of copyright infringers some day.
I'd like to think we could do something about this problem, but I wonder if any technology we have could alter the course of an asteroid large enough to be a problem. Do we even have a prototype of something like a fusion rocket that could potentialy move the hundreds (thousands/millions) of tons of mass that these big rocks have?
Have the nuk-lear worryworts made sure that we haven't even researched the possibilities? Best I've ever seen is the occasional schematic of an orion-type starship from decades ago. Screw Ion-Drives. Let's give some money to the big engines...
I just saw about 15 of them trying to install a D-link USB wireless card (USB) on a W2K box. If not the BSOD, then it was spontaneous reboots. Finally pulled a different one out of my pocket, and it's associated driver. (got tired of uninstall, clean cached drivers, reload software, detect hardware, BLUE-SCREEN on boot)
Then there's my home machine that runs 2K. It's fine unless I plug a USB camera, Web-Cam, Scanner, or basically anything USB except a card reader into it. Heaven forbid I swap memory sticks too frequently, of it may just BS as well...
Then there's always the customer that tries to roll back his XP after loading a Service Pack, or some daily sevurity patch, and discovers it won't boot anymore...
Yeah, BSOD is on it's way out. (hello KDE, and Open Office) I got a Debian box on it's way to my Grandmother tomorrow morning. (for real. giggle)
I've been working with bacula since I've seen it here. It looks like a winner so far. I dropped it on a windows box, opened a port on the router, and have been able to send commands from the linux server across town to it. Thanks for mentioning the encryption part. Perhaps good compression and encryption can go hand-in-hand while it backs up. I haven't fired up a sql engine on that box to get fancy with the backup jobs, but this product looks great. Do a full backup once a week (or month), incrementals between times, and shelve a full backup every so often. (cool)
It looked good, but I looked at the manual, and didn't see an option for incremental. (I don't want to be copying all 200GB every night from the box that only modified a 2k text file)
Am I missing the option, or should I be wrapping SCP in something else that figures that part out?
I bought a car deck (MP3, with hard drive, and rip ability MEX-1HD I think) a few years back. Found out quickly that the deck would play MP3, rip audio CD's to it's ahrd drive, but would under NO CIRCUMSTANCES allow me to move my mp3 CD's into it's hard drive.
3 days later, after tech support let me know it's a design fetaure to dissalow this kind of useful functionality. I removed the drive, and upgraded a laptop with it. (full format) Sony's idea of fair use had made it worthless to me.
Hey Sony! I don't buy your products anymore cause of that one. None of them. I even refuse to resell Sony to my customers. Great job there guys....
Sounds like he's well aware of the situation to me. Also if some artists are too dumb to see the situation they are quite in their rights to allow themselves to be owned....
"Gabriel: Well you see, I think that a lot of artists aren't very good when it comes to marketing or accounts or doing a lot of the jobs that record companies do, so we're going to want somebody to do that. And probably the people we will look to do it are probably those who have the experience. But what I fundamentally believe is that the relationship should be a partnership. It shouldn't be "we own you therefore we do what we want with your work." Those days should be gone, and if artists aren't smart enough to get off their arses and change that now, then we deserve what we get, because we have the opportunity [to change that]. It's quite hard talking to artists sometimes to get them motivated because there is not a lot of money in it at this point. But I think there will be and it's more sort of a power balance and I just think people in record companies now are a lot more willing to consider power-sharing deals."
I read a book when I was 8 that said we'd contact aliens by 2010-2015. I've been holding my breath ever since. They also wrote about the flying cars, moon bases, and solar power satellites that we've been enjoying these past 4 years or so... I just wish I didn't live in such a back-waters part of the country that's still driving around on 4 tyres.
Just got married a few weeks ago. I talked to the photographer durring all of the shoots about photoshop, and got her really stoked. She thought it was great that I would touch up the photos myself. I ended up giving her $100 over the package price, and she burned the 100+ photos to CD for me, and typed up a document that releases all claim on the photos.
(These are the reduced images, of course) http://sbnsor.com/familyphoto/Wedding-07- 04-2004/i ndex.htm
The weak point described means the point on the cable that is capable of bearing the least load (because it is thinest). You were correct that the middle of the cable is under the most stress (basically has the force of 1/2 the mass of the cable pulling in each direction at one gravity). It being under the most stress is why it's built the strongest. The weak points are at the ends where you don't need quite so much strength...
How about defining it by whether people are getting paid for their participation, or are doing it as a hobby...
Amateur Athelete used to mean 'not paid'. Seems a logical definition to use here. (yes, they changed the rules for atheletes, but who ever said they were logical?)
I think his point is that the plants are extracting a wide variety of heavy metals from the soil (cleaning things up). The gold is just one of the more valuable materials to come out of the cleanup process and help pay for things...
Slashdot Mirror
http://qtss.arc.nasa.gov/worldwind-1_2.zip is working at about 175k for me...
Dang... Everyone got one but me.
Last time I stop to fix those kids dinner....
Speaking of which... I'd dearly love an invite.
- Know whatahmean, know whatahmean, nudge nudge, know whatahmean, say no more?
I guess you didn't read the article.
It says Paypal to "Fine Gambling, Porn Sites"
So if you want the good stuff, you need to use paypal...
Here's the best I got:
google cache
and this, too
I'm trying to remember the special place in hell for those who were "just following orders". Perhaps these monkeys can meet up with the DOJ apes that raid the homes of copyright infringers some day.
"Pineapple Anyone?"
Assuming the wavefront from the 1st explosion is traveling trivialy slower than the speed of light (in a vacuum):
([Distance between warheads] / c ) = [precision required]
0.05 km / 299,792.458(km/s) = 1.6678204759907602478778835723746e-7 s
Someone please check my math. Its sometimes as bad as my grammer.
I'd like to think we could do something about this problem, but I wonder if any technology we have could alter the course of an asteroid large enough to be a problem. Do we even have a prototype of something like a fusion rocket that could potentialy move the hundreds (thousands/millions) of tons of mass that these big rocks have?
Have the nuk-lear worryworts made sure that we haven't even researched the possibilities? Best I've ever seen is the occasional schematic of an orion-type starship from decades ago. Screw Ion-Drives. Let's give some money to the big engines...
All I can say to this is:
http://sbnsor.com/funny/macowner.mpg
I just saw about 15 of them trying to install a D-link USB wireless card (USB) on a W2K box. If not the BSOD, then it was spontaneous reboots. Finally pulled a different one out of my pocket, and it's associated driver. (got tired of uninstall, clean cached drivers, reload software, detect hardware, BLUE-SCREEN on boot)
Then there's my home machine that runs 2K.
It's fine unless I plug a USB camera, Web-Cam, Scanner, or basically anything USB except a card reader into it. Heaven forbid I swap memory sticks too frequently, of it may just BS as well...
Then there's always the customer that tries to roll back his XP after loading a Service Pack, or some daily sevurity patch, and discovers it won't boot anymore...
Yeah, BSOD is on it's way out. (hello KDE, and Open Office) I got a Debian box on it's way to my Grandmother tomorrow morning. (for real. giggle)
Let's see how long my server lasts. {Sheepish-Grin}
VIDEO
(Thanks for the text-mirror earlier. It was nice to read about it, and see that they all kept their sense of humor about the situation.)
I've been working with bacula since I've seen it here. It looks like a winner so far. I dropped it on a windows box, opened a port on the router, and have been able to send commands from the linux server across town to it. Thanks for mentioning the encryption part. Perhaps good compression and encryption can go hand-in-hand while it backs up. I haven't fired up a sql engine on that box to get fancy with the backup jobs, but this product looks great. Do a full backup once a week (or month), incrementals between times, and shelve a full backup every so often. (cool)
Unfortunately, it doesn't look the least bit free (in any sense of the word...) Other than that, it's pretty wonderful stuff.
Probably my bias from too much microsoft networking causes me to look for any other solution than microsoft style networking. haha
It looked good, but I looked at the manual, and didn't see an option for incremental. (I don't want to be copying all 200GB every night from the box that only modified a 2k text file)
Am I missing the option, or should I be wrapping SCP in something else that figures that part out?
3 cheers fo you. (My sentiments exactly)
I bought a car deck (MP3, with hard drive, and rip ability MEX-1HD I think) a few years back. Found out quickly that the deck would play MP3, rip audio CD's to it's ahrd drive, but would under NO CIRCUMSTANCES allow me to move my mp3 CD's into it's hard drive.
3 days later, after tech support let me know it's a design fetaure to dissalow this kind of useful functionality. I removed the drive, and upgraded a laptop with it. (full format) Sony's idea of fair use had made it worthless to me.
Hey Sony! I don't buy your products anymore cause of that one. None of them. I even refuse to resell Sony to my customers. Great job there guys....
Sounds like he's well aware of the situation to me. Also if some artists are too dumb to see the situation they are quite in their rights to allow themselves to be owned....
"Gabriel: Well you see, I think that a lot of artists aren't very good when it comes to marketing or accounts or doing a lot of the jobs that record companies do, so we're going to want somebody to do that. And probably the people we will look to do it are probably those who have the experience. But what I fundamentally believe is that the relationship should be a partnership. It shouldn't be "we own you therefore we do what we want with your work." Those days should be gone, and if artists aren't smart enough to get off their arses and change that now, then we deserve what we get, because we have the opportunity [to change that]. It's quite hard talking to artists sometimes to get them motivated because there is not a lot of money in it at this point. But I think there will be and it's more sort of a power balance and I just think people in record companies now are a lot more willing to consider power-sharing deals."
I read a book when I was 8 that said we'd contact aliens by 2010-2015. I've been holding my breath ever since. They also wrote about the flying cars, moon bases, and solar power satellites that we've been enjoying these past 4 years or so... I just wish I didn't live in such a back-waters part of the country that's still driving around on 4 tyres.
Just got married a few weeks ago.
- 04-2004/i ndex.htm
:-)
I talked to the photographer durring all of the shoots about photoshop, and got her really stoked. She thought it was great that I would touch up the photos myself. I ended up giving her $100 over the package price, and she burned the 100+ photos to CD for me, and typed up a document that releases all claim on the photos.
(These are the reduced images, of course)
http://sbnsor.com/familyphoto/Wedding-07
Moral of the story? It pays to shmooze...
Is rated about 22-28 mpg...
I tend to get a low of 13 if I'm driving badly, to an all-time high of 28mpg (straight freeway, no hills).
Guess I can't complain.
2002 X-Type 3.0l
Yeah, that's what I picture every time I think about it too hard, too....
(I'd love to hear one of those explanations that makes a person say 'Doooh!")
I think it was just a confusion of terms...
The weak point described means the point on the cable that is capable of bearing the least load (because it is thinest). You were correct that the middle of the cable is under the most stress (basically has the force of 1/2 the mass of the cable pulling in each direction at one gravity). It being under the most stress is why it's built the strongest. The weak points are at the ends where you don't need quite so much strength...
Yeah, except that the OS they push is $59...
(Free as in speech, I guess)
How about defining it by whether people are getting paid for their participation, or are doing it as a hobby...
Amateur Athelete used to mean 'not paid'. Seems a logical definition to use here. (yes, they changed the rules for atheletes, but who ever said they were logical?)
I think his point is that the plants are extracting a wide variety of heavy metals from the soil (cleaning things up). The gold is just one of the more valuable materials to come out of the cleanup process and help pay for things...